FATALITIES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12647, 6 January 1904, Page 2

FATALITIES.

[press association.] AUCKLAND, Tuesday. Lawrence Stanway, nine years of age, was drowned while bathing at Acroa.

Mrs Young, a resident of Aratapu, dropped dead in the presence of her husband, while washing clothes. Charles Denman, 48, employed by Mitchelson Bros., at Maropiu, was found dead in bed- The supposed cause of death was apoplexy. At an inquest at the Asylum on a male patient, aged 76, committed to the Asylum from Costley Home, Dr Beattie, medical superintendent, expressed the opinion that the deceased had never been insane or imbecile, and suffered only from old age. The jury returned a verdict that “the cause of death was old age, that the deceased was never insane, and that he came by his death in a natural way.” A very sudden death occurred in Ponsonby this afternoon, when Henry Marcroft, aged 77, fell on the footpath and expired. Heart failure was the cause.

OAMABU, Tuesday. James Mitchell, aged 70, an oldage pensioner, dropped dead in the Kurow creamery yard yesterday. DUNEDIN. Tuesday. John Fitzgerald, an old identity of the Pembroke district, and discoverer of the Crilfel diggings, was burnt to death in a hut to-day.